A cyber threat could be lurking in any corner of an organization’s infrastructure. The complex networks encompassing numerous smart and interconnected technologies make it easy for cyber criminals to hide, but much harder for them to be found.
Yet, waiting for a cyber threat to make an appearance is far too dangerous to an enterprise; if left undetected, a cyber criminal could stay in an organization’s network for years - and just think of the damage that could be caused. To combat this, threat hunting is now an essential component of any cybersecurity strategy. Rather than waiting for a hacker to make themselves known, threat hunting involves constantly and proactively searching for the threats hiding within a system, working on the assumption that a cyber hacker is ever-present and looking for signs of unusual activity before it even occurs.